ANALOGICA SELECTION 2015 // part 3 // Oct 4 / h.20.30

Self Portrait Portrait by James Hollenbaugh / Usa 2014 / super8 / 6'

Bryan Lewis Saunders has been creating a self-portrait every day for nearly twenty years. This short documentary examines his process and determination to create, without pretension or boundaries. Each portrait is a unique slice from Bryan’s daily life exploring a wide range of emotions, desires, and fears.

James Hollenbaugh is a Pennsylvania-based American Filmmaker and Emmy Nominated Cinematographer predominantly working in small gauge film formats. Hollenbaugh's films have screened in institutions, galleries, andmuseums - including The Venice Biennale, The National Galleryof Art, and Anthology Film Archives.

As so often, also here it's rather about allusion than description. This also applies to the persons represented. Flat silhouettes of people. Their heads depicted in profile. Faces with no expression, formal gestures. In the background, a little bit of everyday life: The hard, square, stone architecture arises from ocher-colored, brownish, blackish mush of color or mud. A demonstration of the function of the central perspective. An idealized representation of a tropical paradise. Strangely, there's no absurdity in this.﻿Bernd Lützeler﻿ studied at University of the Arts Berlin, where he completed Maria Vedder's master class in 2003. Nowadays he lives and works as an artist and filmmaker in Berlin. In his works he often focuses on the aesthetics and perception of the moving image and sound, and their interrelation with technology and society. Several of his film- and video-projects have been produced in Mumbai, India, including his last film the Voice of God and the multimedia theatre performance K⁰. He is an active member of the artist-run, analogue film-collective LaborBerlin. Currently he works on his new experimental film Camera Threat.

Kolja Kunt lives and works in Berlin. She has been realizing short films, media installations and photo events. Recently she has been working on her first feature length film, an essayistic documentary in Guinea-Bissau/West Africa

P.O.P.By Eduardo Menz and David J. Romero / Canada 2013 / super8 / 3'

A super 8mm film created for the One Take Super 8 event started by Alex Rogalski and held annually by Double Negative Collective in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Film portraits that capture a different state of mind.

Eduardo Menz lives and works in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Eduardo completed his BFA in film production at Concordia University in 2006. He is a member of the Double Negative Collective who showcase international experimental filmmaker’s works as well as exhibit their own films and videos at numerous festivals locally and worldwide. Eduardo’s film work has always attempted to transgress and interweave the boundaries of what defines fiction, documentary and experimental film genres.

David J. Romero is a nomadic photographer who often follows the migration of the monarch butterflies between Canada and Mexico. His works moves between painting, performance, photography, video, and installation.

LUTHIERby Kevin T. Allen / Usa 2010 / super8 / 5' 49''

Raul Orlando Perez lives in the mountains of Patagonia. He crafted his first instrument in 1962. An instrument is not simply defined by the age, treatment, and construction of its materials, but is an alchemy that continues to grow and adapt with use. In 2009, I brought him a door salvaged from my family home lost to fire. He transformed it into a beautiful handcrafted flamenco guitar.Kevin T. Allen is a filmmaker and sound artist who has exhibited at numerous venues, including MoMA, Margaret Mead Film Festival, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Berlin Directors Lounge, Ethnographic Terminalia, and Deep Wireless Festival of Radio Art. Recent research has lead him to find culture not exclusively in human forms, but also inherent in physical landscapes and material objects. He teaches documentary practice at The New School in NYC and is funded through the Jerome Foundation..

Salix Tree by Victor Arroyo / Canada 2015 / super8 / 11'

‘Salix Tree’ it’s the documentation of a displaced domestic space, and a self‐ethnographic document meant to be experienced as a passage between languages, a concentration of voices whose identity remains opaque. In which language does one self‐documents when there is no mother tongue anymore?Victor Arroyo is an experimental filmmaker, working with documentary filmmaking, video‐art and video installation. Happily married and living in Montreal, Canada. Leonardo Kai, his son, calls him Papa every morning.

Intergenerational conflict between people who live on and for the countryside. My grandmother and I. The clash of the image with those it represented.Tânia Dinis art projects, developed mainly in video, installation and performance, often assume an itinerant nature. They where presented in Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mexico and Argentina in the context of several art programs and institutions. In 2013 she was invited to be part of the Feature Films' jury at the 17th Luso-Brazilian Cinema Festival.Directed the short documentary / experimental They’re not fava beans, they’re scarlet runner beans in 2013 and was awarded the NAU - Film Festival and Iberian Expression Photography, Porto in the International Festival of Short 8 Super 8 Curitiba with the Super Prize - Popular Jury and Super Award - Festival with.